Epigenetic inheritance of cell fates during embryonic development

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Cheedipudi, Sirisha ^a,b   Genolet, Oriana ^a,b   Dobreva, Gergana ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HEART AND LUNG RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell fate; Cell identity; Epigenetic memory; Epigenetics; ES cells; Histone modification; Inheritance

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; LYSINE;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETIC INHERITANCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC REGULATION; HISTONE METHYLATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 84897709311     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00019     Document Type: Short Survey

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